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| Internal audit in brief: The challenge continues |
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| Jun 2009 |
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 Our second edition of "Internal audit - in brief" is designed to give internal audit leaders a summary of the topical issues we are seeing in the market place.
The current financial crisis shows no signs of easing and internal audit functions face growing challenges to ensure that they are providing assurance over the organisation's changing risks. Now is the time for internal audit functions to take the initiative to help Boards and Audit Committees understand how the investment in internal audit is utilised and effectiveness and efficiency can be improved.
In this edition, in addition to our regular articles on regulatory changes, we provide insights into:
- PwC Internal Audit surveys - a brief overview of the trends coming out of the recent PwC surveys.
- Human resource strategies - outlining potential alternatives to staff redundancies.
- Contract reviews - a quick guideline on how to assess whether your major contracts continue to deliver the benefits they were set up to achieve.
- Continuous auditing - The relative merits of continuous auditing through the use of technology have been debated for a number of years. Here we outline some of the issues to consider.
- Supplier risks - an increasing number of businesses have experienced significant problems arising from failures of suppliers. What steps can be introduced to mitigate this issue?
- Corruption - outlining the importance of internal audit's role in ensuring senior management are discussing potential corruption, obtaining better information regarding exposures in high risk market places, and identifying opportunities to reduce risk.
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